Mathematics Mentoring STEM education 
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 17, 2024
Using an interdisciplinary approach, Leyva’s research explores how interlocking systems of power, including racism and cisheteropatriarchy, impact classroom teaching and student support in undergraduate mathematics and STEM higher education. Leyva teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
To provide a backdrop, in 2022, 798,534 students were enrolled in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduate programs in the United States (National Science Foundation, 2022). Existing research shows that there are myriad storms that serve as barriers to Black males developing or maintaining interest in STEM.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
This group, smaller in number, comprised almost exclusively Black and brown graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. I met with a similar group of peers about a week or two later for an evening gathering to wind down the week.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 16, 2024
We evolved our mentoring program so that it better serves the students we are supporting at this time,” says Valencia. Leyva is an associate professor of Mathematics Education & STEM Higher Education in the Vanderbilt University-Peabody College of Education & Human Development. Dr. Luis A.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 31, 2023
Academia and industry alike have long grappled with the lingering issue of gender equity in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and professions. The National Girls Collaborative Project’s 2023 “State of Girls and Women in STEM” report revealed much of the same.
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